Did you know that Roxane Gay has started a press? No, not her involvement with PANK, which we all know…
On Lavender-Smith’s From Old Notebooks
If one ever wondered what happened to the guys in high school who sat around reading philosophy and fancying posey, From…
Mario Is the New Mickey
I never understood Mickey Mouse’s appeal. He frightened me as a child, always striking me as a freakish fellow. I…
“Froth” and “Cloud Formations”
“You know,” the painter said, “that art froth, that artist fornication, that general art-and-artist loathsomeness, I always found that repelling;…
All The Best For You, To You: My 2010 Best in Lit List
Best Small Press Books: Matt Bell’s How They Were Found, Lindsay Hunter’s Daddy’s, Patrick Somerville’s The Universe in Miniature in…
Start Suffering
“You suffer The Lime Twig like a dream. It seems to be something that is happening to you, that you…
Announcing the Book Club Schedule!
The votes are in, and the winner of the poll for the first book to be discussed in the Big…
Best of 2010, Part 2
I spent a large part of today playing with my five-year-old daughter in the snow, and I’m thinking that might…
Attempt, endeavour, meditation
The essay is a European form, originating in the writings of Montesquieu and Bacon, but of late it has come…